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Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:23:59 -0600
From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] small IPMI cleanup
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Adrian Bunk wrote:

>>these functions that are perhaps not in the kernel yet (and perhaps 
>>never make it into the mainstream kernel).  Some of the statics do need 
>>to be cleaned up, though.
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>Why shouldn't they make it into the mainstream kernel?
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Sometimes people create specific tools that only support a specific type 
of board.  I'm not sure every single thing written to go into the kernel 
should be included i nthe mainstream kernel.  It's a hard call, but if 
it for some very specific thing then the vendor may not be interested in 
doing this.

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>>The IPMI driver was designed so that in-kernel users can use it as 
>>easily as userland users.  So these are important parts of the interface.
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>For userland users, a global kernel function (even if EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed) 
>is useless.
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Right, but it has to be there for the in-kernel users.

-Corey
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